Tuesday, July 26, 2011

It wasn't a pretty night for Clayton Kershaw (6.2 IP, 8 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 Ks), but he soldiered on long enough to get the Dodgers in position to win their fourth in a row; Matt Guerrier came on to finish the seventh and Kenley Jansen pitched a perfect ninth to close it and get the save.

The Dodgers only managed four hits, half as many as the Rockies, but scored three runs in the fourth inning, thanks in large part to Ty Wigginton's error on a routine Rafael Furcal fly ball to left (go ahead and speculate which words "routine" is modifying there). Furcal ended up on second base to lead off the inning, and a Matt Kemp 2-RBI double scored Furcal and Andre Ethier (who walked), while Juan Rivera added another run off a weird fly ball to the second baseman, who then tripped and was taken out by Ryan Spilborghs, allowing Kemp to score (you should watch this highlight).

Those three runs was all the Dodgers needed to notch the win and inch to 12 GB of the division lead.

Had to watch this this morning - at normal speed from above the plate, it looks like a no-brainer. On replay, you can see how the ump missed it. The catcher swiped through him without laying down a solid tag. But on slo-mo it looks like he did touch him with the glove, so it was definitely a blown call

What I am trying to figure out was what happened to the batter? He does a complete belly-flop 5 steps out of the batters box. If they had called the out at home, they had an easy double play at first